Today, March 26th (just in case you hadn't quite twigged what the date was and by the way, it's Monday), is 'Make Up Your Own Holiday Day'. Honestly, it's official. Not that your boss will probably appreciate you taking the day off. In which case your special holiday will probably be St. P45's Day.

Today Barbie celebrates (if that's the right word) her 53rd birthday, and remarkably she still doesn't look a day older than she did last year. Or the year before. It was in 1959 that the world's first Barbie doll was introduced in New York, at the American International Toy Fair. We thought that in honour of this day we'd offer up a few rather interesting facts about this iconic doll.

Today, March 6th, we celebrate the 50th birthday of a quiet chap called William Bruce Bailey. If you haven't heard of William Bruce Bailey then possibly that's because you know him by his stage name of Axl Rose, the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Guns N'Roses. Happy half century to you Axl!